初来日観光客が初めての日本食に感動 ⁉︎

Hi! So nice to meet you! Thank you so much for your time today! I'm Jacob. I'm 20 years old and I'm a doctor. I work in the urology department. I'm right now doing a research fellowship in Vienna. Okay, where are you from? I'm from Hamburg, Germany. Ah, nice! Yeah, and I'm Jon. I'm 30 years old. Also a urologist like Jacob. And also from Hamburg. Is it your first time in Japan? Yeah, it's the first time. Your first time in Japan? It's the second day now. Oh my god! It's been two days! Everything is very new. Everything is new to you already? You like Japanese food, yeah? Yeah, I really love it. Because you have to try a bunch of Japanese food today that you never tried before! We love it! Are you guys excited? That's great! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very excited. Very nice. This is the restaurant we're going to today. Looks very nice. Very cozy. I know, right? Very good quality as well, I would say. Chef's cooking. Preparing food for you, you know? Wow. Looks very professional. So this is the welcome food for us. We have to start the dinner with this rice. This rice is a special brand of rice in Japan. It's from Niigata Prefecture, which is north part of Japan. We cook this rice with the water from the island of Niigata Prefecture. Nice. Very special. Very special. And this is rice wine, sake. Have you tried sake before? No, not at all. Your first time drinking? I have tried it, but I liked it very much. I don't know sake. Okay, so the sake is also from Niigata Prefecture. This is the sake that you are going to try. Cheers! Very nice, honestly. How much percent does this have? This one is 15%. It's very soft and drinkable, I would say. Really, really nice. So my first time I tried sake, my Japanese colleagues invited me to a restaurant in Vienna. And they told me that it's like the tradition that the youngest on the table always has to pour the sake. So I had to pour the sake for everybody, but it was really nice. So funny! We finished a whole bottle of this and I poured them really hard. Sweet and also very gluey. It's nice. It's very juicy. Juicy, right? It's very nice. Nice. Is there any Japanese food that you wish to try in Japan? I want to try everything, right? Everything that gets to our mind. There's very good Japanese seafood, I think. You want to try seafood. Some nice beef. Have you tried Wagyu beef before? No, we haven't. Oh, you haven't? No, we have never. Okay, you're going to try Wagyu beef today, then. This is very good. What do you feel like drinking to start? We will follow your guide. Do you like beer? We do. You do? Like the Germans. We have Asahi beer or Sapporo beer. Okay. You've never tried Asahi or Sapporo? We don't know anything of it. Okay, let's try from Asahi part. Okay, nice. Sounds good already. Very nice. This is Japanese way, but Japanese people drink beer with this little glass. We have a city in Germany which is called Cologne. They also do have small glasses. Oh, interesting. So, hi to Cologne. Very nice. Absolutely approved. How is Japan to you so far? So many people. You can imagine, right? I expect it to be very clean, actually. I mean, it can hold up to the expectations. I would say it's crazy. It's very organized and structured. Hardworking people. Very similar to what I was expecting. Yeah, this is why I got here. Exactly what I wanted to see and to experience. I would say it maybe exceeded our expectations. Like in size and how clean it is. And how structured and organized. And how good transportation works. I mean, I would say in general, many Germans are very much interested in Japan. It's so different compared to Germany. But everything is very sophisticated and really nice. I would even say it's kind of a trend, at least maybe in our bubble, that people like to visit Japan and are really much interested in. And also I think another point is that it's so influencing. It has so influencing fashion, pop culture, music. Oh, you think? Really? Yeah, I think so. You get a lot of impressions from Japan. I didn't know Japan was such a big thing in Germany. It is. Also my sister is so excited. She's always drawing anime and stuff. Also anime is very strong also in Germany. What is it? Nice color. Very nice, yeah. Is it tuna? Is it like small, small tuna? I don't know. It looks very, very tasty. It does. All those fresh colors. This fish, I wonder if you ever tried this before. We call it katsuo. Katsuo? In English, we call it bonito. Yeah, I have no idea. This is bonito that you are going to try today. Very nice. Very, very nice. Very nice, right? Does it have like a special season or something? This one is slightly gray on the surface. You are going to try bonito. One with salt, one with soy sauce. Do you want to try from the salt? Okay. Thank you very much. Enjoy. Katsuo. Okay. I'm going to drop it if I... Wow. Oh, it's so soft. Crazy. But you still notice it's kind of tuna. Oh, really, really nice. Also with the salt, this is completely new. I always add soy sauce on fish. Wow. Really, really nice. This is next level. Next level. Really? Yeah, it's... Wow. Crazy. Such a good quality. Wow. Honestly. Thank you for that. I can't wait to... Yeah, I know. Wow. So nice. Also with soy sauce, honestly. Crazy. Love it. So nice, honestly. Wow. Really, really nice. I think the soy sauce I like more. Oh, you like the soy sauce? Both are wonderful. Oh, I'm so happy you like it. We're also happy. So, and it's only a little bit of soy sauce always? A little bit of soy sauce, but it's good quality, you know? Yeah, yeah. They tend to... We use too much. Yeah, use it too much. For us. Wow. So nice. Perfect. We don't need anything else. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. Only this big. Katsuo. Yeah, katsuo. More. So nice, honestly. Crazy, yeah. Thank you so much. Perfect. I'm so happy. Okay, let's keep on trying the food. Okay. The Japanese food. Now you're going to try this one. Okay, this looks pretty new. What do you think it is? I can't even tell if it's sweet or salty. Looks like... Something like berries? No. It's not sweet. It's not sweet at all. It's not sweet? Okay. It's not. This is also really seasonal food that you can only eat in autumn and winter. Okay. Have you seen this tree in autumn season? You've never seen it? Maybe I haven't seen it. Ginkgo tree. Ginkgo. Oh, you know ginkgo? Okay. Yeah, yeah, we know ginkgo. This is the nut from the tree. Okay. Wow. Didn't even know it's a nut. This is autumn flavor, yeah. This is very exciting. Oh, hot. Well, the texture is different than what I expected. Yeah, definitely. But nice and salty. In the beginning I thought it was similar to potatoes maybe, but it's not, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has like a... Like the taste ends with... I don't know. A little bitter maybe? Like very nice. I really like it. Can I have another one? Of course, keep eating please. Japanese people like to eat it with beer. Then we are perfectly arranged. I'll go for another one. It's very nice. I can understand why probably because it's like salty and, you know, like a... But I love the texture because it's... It really has some nice texture, right? It does. Really nice. Crazy. Now we can say we tried ginkgo nuts. Who can say this? In Germany. Probably, yeah. Very, very good. Also the beer. Very nice. Also the beer! Okay! Maybe we should import this to Germany. Yeah, ginkgo nuts, right? Yeah, yeah. Ah, arigatou gozaimasu! Ooh, what is it? If I could make a guess, I think this is beef. And as you mentioned, maybe it's like Wagyu? You have good guess! So, this is the Wagyu beef. Oh, it smells so nice. Yeah? You are going to try today! Oh, nice. I'm very excited about that. Are you excited? Let's go! I always wanted to try it. You always wanted to try it. This is the Wagyu with pork. This is what I really enjoy and I'm very excited about this. Like, how much love and detail food is here. This is very, very nice. It smells so good, honestly. It smells so good? It does. I'm excited. You're really going to try this for the very first time. You can see our eyes. I'm having water in my mouth. Mmm, so good, honestly. Really? Wow. This is amazing. And I always make... Wow. Wow, this is so good. It's so flavorful. So many tastes. The center is so tender and also it's very umami. Yeah, really, really nice. How's the taste? Umami, yeah? Mmm, umami. Mmm. Wow. Very nice. So good, honestly. Wow. Like, best beef I've ever eaten. Wow. I'd say so. Wow, that's a strong statement. Also, thank you for that. Of course, let's keep trying. Is this like a different paste or something? Teppan paste. This is also from Niigata. Mmm. I love the paste. You like it? I think even with the potato paste, it's even better. Oh, really? Very, very tasty. Still umami. Still a lot of umami in there. Crazy. Oh, wow. Very nice. Time to try one of the fish that we have in Japan. It does look fun. Can I see? Is it that poisonous? We call this nodoguro. Nodoguro. So beautiful, right? Yeah, very beautiful. I think I have never seen it. I have never seen it. Nodoguro. Can I take a picture? Wow. It's very nice. It is juicy. Indeed. Very nice. It looks like it just took a nice swim this morning and now ended up here. It's time to take a bath. It's nice, though. Yeah, it's not so intense. Fish is ready. Here you go. Thank you so much. Here you go. Hello. Enjoy. Oh, I have to do this. Wow, it's so soft. It is. It is crazy. It is. Try some skin, which is really nice. Crusty and salty. Crispy. So juicy, right? Yeah. Really juicy. That describes it very well. Really good. My teeth don't have any job to do. True, right? Even without teeth, it would be possible to... Eat it. Yeah, to process this. You should really much enjoy this. It's just great with salt. But I think the love for the detail is the most important thing. And Japanese cooks really know this, I think. This is what you can experience on your plate. It also seems to be very healthy, the food. It's so juicy. It is. Look at the... The juice. Yeah, the juice. How is your Japanese food experience going? First of all, I thought you might have lucky hands. But now, all this is so impressive. We are going to try this one. Do you know what it is? Just a wild guess. Some sort of squid. Or is it... I don't know. So, this food, we call it tempura. So, this is fish tempura. And this one is mushroom. But it seems to be very big. I know, right? Have you seen maitake before? Maitake mushroom. No. This is maitake. Wow. Okay, crazy. I've never seen it. Really, really nice smell. And then we eat the tempura with this tempura sauce. Ah, okay. It's grilled, yeah? Yeah. Yeah? I thought I didn't like tempura, but this I like very much. I thought I tried it once and it wasn't my favorite favorite, I would say. But now this is really nice. But maybe I didn't try the right tempura. The complex one. It's really nice. Awesome combination. Really good, honestly. And also it's like soaking up this very... I can only repeat myself all the time. And now, you are going to try tempura. Okay. This fish, we call it haze. Haze? Haze is also a word in German. Really? What does it mean? Bunny. Yeah. Really? Yeah, like small rabbit. Very crispy. Very nice meat of the fish. Really good, yeah? Also with the sauce again. Really nice. It's very soft. Really really nice. Very good. Do you know what it is? So beautiful. Now I'm going to try the Japanese rice with salmon and salmon roe on top. With miso soup. Japanese people want to eat rice with miso soup. Please enjoy your rice. Thank you so much. Like a poem. Yeah. Very good. Also the rice is so soft. Yeah. The ingredients fit together very well. The fish eggs are really nice. Yeah, like really going hand in hand. Yeah, that's a good description. There was also some point I was very excited about. Like in Germany I think we have low quality of rice. That's important to Germany. And I was very excited. Like here rice is something very fundamental and special. And this was a point I was very excited about. This is why it exceeds the expectations, right? That's good. The rice is so nice. So nice. Thank you so much. I'll take the chef with us. Very nice. Do you like the miso soup? It's not the first time I try miso soup. But this is again like the best miso soup I've ever tried. So nice. This is probably the best part of traveling, right? It means a lot to me. I'm so happy meeting you. Thank you. We're also very happy. Thank you so much for showing us. So good. So nice. I couldn't say what was the best. I mean the Wagyu was the best one for you? It was the highlight. But everything was so nice. I couldn't pick like a winner. Just really thankful to get the opportunity to try all this. It's so nice. Please keep enjoying trying the new Japanese food. Of course. And being in Japan. We will do. So this is tomorrow's breakfast for you. Here you go. The rice you just had. Thank you. You're welcome. Today's midnight dinner for you. Thank you for watching. Please like and subscribe. Thank you. Thank you so much.